Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell, sentence 36

This confidence of mine pleased her so much that she assured me she would take me under her own protection, and that not a creature should do me harm.

Who acts: owl · What happens: assure, take, harm, confide, protect · To what, where: me, own protection, mine

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Fourth Mouse, Who Spoke Before the Third, Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (owl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 confidence	det
2	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleased	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 mine	case
4	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 confidence	nmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleased	nsubj
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 assured	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 assured	nsubj
11	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	advcl
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 assured	iobj
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 take	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 take	aux
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 assured	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 take	obj
17	under	under	ADP	_	20 protection	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 protection	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 protection	amod
20	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 harm	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 harm	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 do	mark
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 creature	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 creature	det
26	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 do	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
28	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 harm	aux
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	iobj
30	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pleased	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	assure	past	owl		me		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	would	owl		me	owl's own protection	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	harm	infinitive · do-support					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	confide			mine			nom confidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	protect		owl				nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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